We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.